Incase you didn’t know, Netflix hit series, “Orange Is The New Black” is loosely based on the 11 month jail stint of Piper Kerman in a women’s correctional facility.

Kerman has experienced minimum security to a few months in maximum security first hand, and she calls it, “night and day”.

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According to NBC,

Fixes to the prison were supposed to take 18 months, but they will now take at least 30.As the renovation is underway, the prison is holding around 200 women, which is above its rated capacity of 146, according to the Liman report.

Many other women have been moved to facilities in Brooklyn {Metropolitan Detention Center, 80 29th Street} and Philadelphia, where they have no access to residential drug treatment programs or to the Federal Prison Industries work program.

Kerman expressed that many women have children under 21 years old and are shipped to facilities miles away from them, creating a cycle of crime due to their mental state and also causing damage to the child. She also stated that many of the women are released “prison brutalized” due to idleness, isolation and physical restraint.
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A letter was sent in to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington DC as a call for action.

Dear Director Samuels:

We are writing to express ongoing concerns about the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) plans to change the use of the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut from a women-only facility to a facility devoted primarily to men. We were pleased last November when BOP announced plans to provide beds for women at FCI-Danbury following an 18-month transition period during which the Danbury facility would be renovated. Now, we have learned that BOP revised its timeline without informing us and estimates that the 18-month transition period will actually last longer than 30 months. Further, it appears that BOP may have decided not to provide a Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) in the Northeast, contrary to what our offices had been told to expect.

We are frustrated by the lack of communication regarding both of these critical issues and deeply concerned by the impact they may have on the female inmates and their ability to successfully reenter our communities.

Early on in the transition process, out of concern for the welfare of the female inmates, we requested information on the situation from faculty and law students in the Arthur Liman Program at Yale Law School. Their report, released today, documents the continuing harm that the transition imposes on women. While BOP delays, women are being detained in facilities that were not designed to house them on a long-term basis. Additionally, women in the Northeast may be forced to move far from their families to access essential programming, such as RDAP, which has been proven to reduce recidivism and enhance public safety. We urge BOP to expedite the Danbury transition and to mitigate the harm caused by any delay. In the meantime, we request that BOP clarify its new plans and explain what is being done to minimize harm to female inmates, their families, and their communities by answering the following questions:

Read full letter over at NBC.

Great to see a difficult time in Kerman’s life be used to better it for someone else.